A semiclassical Egorov theorem and quantum ergodicity for matrix valued operators

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 247, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 391-419

  Bolte, Jens ^a   Glaser, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

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EID: 2942530318     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-004-1064-0     Document Type: Article

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